Observations on economics, the academy, the wider world, and things that run on rails.

7.5.16

WHEN YOU DENY COHERENT BELIEFS.

Carol Iannone summarizes, in one passage, precisely what the social justice warriors get wrong.

[Many "microaggressive"] remarks would be avoided if people simply learned some common courtesy (taking off a woman‘s hat and asking, “So what does your hair look like today?”) or maybe even the Golden Rule (“So, like, what are you?”). But that would mean acceding to the wisdom of the tradition and its universal application, rather than bowing to the bureaucratic oversight of diversicrats.But the strategy of the progressives has been to break down every vestige of the tradition (as oppressive of course) and then to build up an intricate bureaucracy in order to control the inevitable unpleasantness that arises from untrammeled human behavior.